Quentin Tarantino & George Clooney

There’s a story my father always loved to tell:
“Tarantino called me one day and said he needed music for his friend George. At first, I thought he was doing campaign work for George Bush. But he said, ‘No, for George Clooney. He doesn’t know much about music, but he’s my best friend – and I told him, he should use your music. Can you take a listen?’

So he played me five tracks – all from Edgar Wallace films, different ones. I asked, ‘Are you planning to re-record them?’
‘No! No new recordings! We’re using them exactly as they are!’

And that’s how a full twenty-minute sequence in the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ended up featuring three of my tracks – all from The Traitor’s Gate.”